• Title/Summary/Keyword: Protovirgularia

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Trace Fossil Protovirgularia McCoy, 1850 from the Nonmarine Cretaceous Jinju formation of the Sacheon area, Korea (경상남도 사천 지역의 백악기 진주층에서 산출된 비해성 Protovirgularia McCoy, 1850)

  • Kim, Jeong-Yul;Kim, Kyung-Soo;Pickerill, Ron K.
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.695-702
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    • 2000

  • The ichnogenus Protovirgularia McCoy, 1850 is reported from nonmarine strata of the Cretaceous Jinju Formation of the Sacheon area Korea. There, the Jinju Formation is composed mainly of fine-grained sandstone, grey to brownish grey mudstone, and shale which were deposited in a freshwater lacustrine environment. This occurrence represents the fist formal recording of the ichnotaxon from Korea and the first, on a global basis, from a nonmarine depositional environment.

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